Volumes of Spaces

http://acgunsdcroses.com/volumes/

Collection of recordings from a site specific, browser based sound intervention “Three Recurring Irregularities“. Upon visiting the website, the users is asked whether he would permit the website to use the microphone and record any sound around. If the users confirms, the website starts recording the microphone input from the users computer to the server, saving IP address and available user and location data with it, but at the same time plays this recording back from the computer, creating a feedback loop. This feedback loop though is controlled by a Auto Gain Control which gives additional structure to the sound, based on the intensity of resonance. The recordings do not only offer a kind of insight into the sound environment of computer users, thus constituting a kind of database of network node recordings (in the sense of “network field” recordings), but also record how people react and interact with electroacoustic effects. Some of the recordings show how people start playing with the phenomenon, while others immediately think somethings wrong and try to fix it. 

22.07.2011